Gee. Could Sinclair Davidson possibly create a worse impression of the moral and intellectual vacuum at the heart of small government/libertarian world view?:
Still missing the obvious after all these years. What about those of
us who simply do not care if the planet is warming up, or cooling down,
or going side-ways; we simply do not want to pay more tax. Or incur
higher utility bills.
It has always struck me that this is the ultimate cause of so-called
climate scepticism. Except few people want to say so. Lord Stern
famously argued that if we don’t care about future generations, we won’t
care about climate change. If we stop and think about how we treat
other people living and breathing today, why imagine that we care about
people who are yet to be born? Now this is a positive statement, not a
normative statement. I’m not saying that we shouldn’t care about future
generations, I’m suggesting that we don’t care about future generations.
As is not uncommon with SD, however, by the time you get to the end of an explanation, it can be hard to tell exactly what his position is...
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